I got to the shop with my plan and the guy told me they had already done 2 and his recommendation was to cut the back window at the top defroster line. Split second decision, I agree with his plan and went with 30% since it wouldn’t cover the whole window now.

Well, it didn’t take more than a few minutes before I seriously regretted this decision. It’s true you don’t see it when looking in the rear view, but it just looks “wrong”. With my OCD tendencies this couldn’t stay this way. Not to mention the 30% didn’t appear to be too dark at all on the overlap part.

Moral of the story, I’m back at the tint place now sitting for a few hours while they remove and retint the entire back window as a single piece in 30%.

Here’s what it looked like and picture to come later once they’re done installing the new piece.

Moral of the story if you have OCD tendencies like me, do not get talked into anything less than the full rear window being done!

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My plan from the beginning was been to tint the entire rear window. the partial always has seemed like a non-starter for me@SoFlaModel3 - can you have them redo the rear window, especially since they talked you into this way of doing it?

Over here up north we are talking two months of bright sunlight that too if we are lucky so my requirement to tint is driven by the need for some privacy for rear passengers so essentially our requirements are different - I think. I see the apparent height of the car increasing with a full dark tint and that I would like to avoid.

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Over here up north we are talking two months of bright sunlight that too if we are lucky so my requirement to tint is driven by the need for some privacy for rear passengers so essentially our requirements are different - I think. I see the apparent height of the car increasing with a full dark tint and that I would like to avoid.

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one of the shops I spoke to a while back on how to deal with the rear window suggesting installing 2 separate pieces of tint, with the seam at the top of the defrost... so if damage was a concern, that could be an option too. The shop that suggested this to me said the seam would be near invisible...

for that matter, are the defrost lines Tesla uses like what we all have known them to be for 40 years? sitting on the interior surface of the glass, or laminated within the glass? (because that seems like something Tesla would improve upon)

@Teslatunity

one of the shops I spoke to a while back on how to deal with the rear window suggesting installing 2 separate pieces of tint, with the seam at the top of the defrost... so if damage was a concern, that could be an option too. The shop that suggested this to me said the seam would be near invisible...

for that matter, are the defrost lines Tesla uses like what we all have known them to be for 40 years? sitting on the interior surface of the glass, or laminated within the glass? (because that seems like something Tesla would improve upon)

I thought about both of those things. I didn’t touch the lines before they tinted, so I’m not sure, but consideration for 2 pieces at the top defroster line probably be nearly impossible to detect if the shop did a perfect job. At this point though I just want the one single piece like my initial plan.